I was personally more interested in Kevin's material before everything he did started turning into a hybrid of Traveller and B/X. I can't help but fall into a, "hwy wouldn't I just use [Traveller or B/X] for this instead," sort of mentality when I read his books. I've also always thought the...
Nice try. But outside this thread (where I've explicitly tried to articulate what makes PbtA and its fans so damned intolerable), I'd challenge you to find even one thread where, "anyone who pushes back on said shitting is seen as some kind of proselytizing obsessive." Most of the time we voice...
The only two people I have consistently seen on other forums with the, "Mythras can do that," message (unless the thread happens to be about Mythras) is Raleel and Bilharzia. And both of them are very tame / understated about that by comparison. Even on this forum, as you noted, it's not as...
I as a (former) Fate player used to hate the online Fate "community" for much the same reason. So besides just not personally liking the rules, my issues tend to be with a certain type of fanatic than with the game engine themselves (though in the case of PbtA, as stated above, I also happen to...
My issue with PbtA gamers isn't that they like it. I actually couldn't care less if they do. It's more like @DeadBob said regarding -borg games in that the issue is their incessant need to tell you about it, even when you preemptively go out of your way to ask them not to. That's what makes them...
Maybe not. But while there have been several games over the years where its fans have had a certain sort of annoying enthusiasm (Fate, Savage Worlds, etc), PbtA fans have been uniquely and unwaveringly intolerable. I hate PbtA games as much for the people who play it as for the shit rules & game...
I mentioned Fate in the other thread. While I think it'd be hard to argue it's "almost forgotten," I think it's pretty irrefutable that it's fallen out of favor when even the publisher who invented it has moved on.
In the OSR space, I think Diogo Nogueira's work is at severe risk of falling...
Same. In my game he'd have been a NPC that died off screen. When the player shows up and triggers the trap, we show a rotting corpse still stuck on spikes to telegraph the stakes for Dr. Jone's player.
Strawman it is, then. Show me where, and be precise and exact, I implied that because you made a terrible argument that therefore means the, "rpg world is perfect." I rest my case.
Attributing the difference in marketability and the relationship between MtG <--> D&D down to the clarity of writing has got to be one of the presumptuous arguments I think I've ever seen. There's nothing whatsoever in any data source any one here can point to that would suggest that, "if only...
Yeah. And even if it ends up being ruled as fair use (there's no way this doesn't eventually end up in court) here in the US, I find it extremely unlikely that the EU courts would follow suit. Which means selling AI art packs becomes a special case where business rules have to be applied at the...
Biggest new you likely missed: Far West actually shipped! Just don't ask me if it's actually any good. I wouldn't know.
And the WEG D6 system was revived via a game called Carbon Grey, which is actually pretty good but I think most people either slept on it or else just plain missed it.
I...
Ok I get what you're going for now. I definitely missed that upthread. That's what happens when you try to quickly skim the thread instead of actually read it.
I can count on one hand the number of games my friends have gone out and bought (literally: D6 Star Wars, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Traveller). Even when the game is free, people just don't tend to consume gaming material the way I (as GM) will.
I might have missed something as I skimmed the above thread, but are we actually trying to argue that 2d6, 3d6, etc don't operate on a bell curve and/or that d20 / d% isn't linear? The so-called swingyness of a system has everything to do with its mathematical distribution. So "perception" isn't...
I own BESM 4e, but not Absolute Power (because BESM came first), for the same reason you've pointed out here. So while I cannot confirm they are exactly the same game in different packages, my impression is that they are near enough to being exactly that, that having both would be redundant. I'm...
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